Tdi300 Rear Wipe

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Ken DL

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• Mar 10, 2006

• #1

The rear wipe on my disco doesn't seem to work properly. When I depress
the button the wiper will sweep once and then park. I would expect it to
sweep 3 times and then sweep intermittently.

When we carried out the fault finding and everything pointed to a faulty
MFU. This has been replaced and the fault has not gone. Any ideas what
else could be causing the problem. The rear wash wipe works as expected,
sweeping 3 times before parking.

Ken

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Mar 11, 2006

• #2

On or around Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:03 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
[email protected] (Ken DL) enlightened us thusly:

>The rear wipe on my disco doesn't seem to work properly. When I depress
>the button the wiper will sweep once and then park. I would expect it to
>sweep 3 times and then sweep intermittently.
>
>When we carried out the fault finding and everything pointed to a faulty
>MFU. This has been replaced and the fault has not gone. Any ideas what
>else could be causing the problem. The rear wash wipe works as expected,
>sweeping 3 times before parking.

on our 300, the switch latches down. is yours supposed to as is it doing
so?
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Ken DL

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• Mar 11, 2006

• #3

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Austin Shackles) wrote:

> on our 300, the switch latches down. is yours supposed to as is it
> doing so?

The switch does not stay down and never has since we bought the car. I
have ordered a new switch and hopefully this may solve the problem.

Thanks

Ken

 

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Austin Shackles

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• Mar 11, 2006

• #4

On or around Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:10 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
[email protected] (Ken DL) enlightened us thusly:

>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] (Austin Shackles) wrote:
>
>> on our 300, the switch latches down. is yours supposed to as is it
>> doing so?
>
>The switch does not stay down and never has since we bought the car. I
>have ordered a new switch and hopefully this may solve the problem.
>

they may not do - on the 200 TDi type I had it had a touch-switch, and it
had a distinct knack in getting the bastard to turn off again. On the '95
300 TDi, the switch has a latch so it stays down 'til you push it again.
--
Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
Appearances: You don't really need make-up. Celebrate your authentic
face by frightening people in the street.
from the Little Book of Complete B***ocks by Alistair Beaton.

 

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Ken DL

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• Mar 12, 2006

• #5

In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Austin Shackles) wrote:

> they may not do - on the 200 TDi type I had it had a touch-switch, and
> it had a distinct knack in getting the bastard to turn off again. On
> the '95 300 TDi, the switch has a latch so it stays down 'til you push
> it again.

Having looked at the parts list there is only one switch part number
listed and at a couple of quid it won't break the bank if it doesn't
solve the problem

To be honest when we went through the diagnostics procedure it never
occurred to us that the switch could be the problem. Doh!!

Ken

 

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Ken DL

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• Mar 30, 2006

• #6

New switch fitted and all is well... well until something else goes wrong


Ken